![]() The paradox of Pixar is that, using advanced technology, it elevates the old-fashioned, the links to a more innocent form of play. But for grown-ups, the film will touch something deeper: the heartfelt wish that childhood memories never fade. Kids will love Toy Story 3 for its cliffhangers and slapstick spills. In the script by Michael Arndt, who wrote Little Miss Sunshine, the gags are all of a piece, right up to the forlorn yet enchanting finale. At Sunnyside, Barbie is instantly smitten by Ken (who has the voice of Michael Keaton), and all those Ken-is-gay jokes get a new spin: He's a metrosexual elated at finding someone for whom he can show off his disco wardrobe. The toys - especially the cowboy Woody, with the voice of Tom Hanks - see the boy who owns them, Andy, in the way of parents whose kids are growing up and moving on.Īs usual with Pixar, the little things win your heart: Woody escaping out the bathroom window, but pausing to put down a sheet of toilet paper before stepping on the seat. Toy Story 3 has another dimension, probably the upshot of creators John Lasseter, Andrew Stanton, and the director, Lee Unkrich, getting older and having kids. The idea is almost Buddhist in how it invests all matter with a life force worthy of reverence. But they have spiritual properties, and to discard them carelessly is to dishonor the past that shaped us. Pixar very likely borrowed the premise from Thomas Disch's The Brave Little Toaster: Objects once prized lose their newness and become disposable. The Toy Story pictures are rooted in a child's fantasy of what happens when he or she turns out the lights and the toys come alive - but I've never thought of them as "kids' movies." At heart they're about aging, impermanence, loss and death. ![]() Yes, there will be pressure to squeeze out more sequels: This is, as industry folks say, a "franchise," a studio "tent pole." But if the people who run Pixar are as savvy as I think, they'll know the series should end like this, on a lovely, wistful high. This tableau did not actually appear in any version of Toy Story 3, however.With any luck, Toy Story 3 will be the last of the Toy Story movies. The image was typically posted on the web or e-mailed with a title of "Andy's All Grown Up" or "Andy's Room - All Grown Up": ![]() The June 2010 release of Toy Story 3, the second sequel in the popular PIXAR/Disney Toy Story series of films, was quickly followed by the circulation of a screenshot that purportedly captured a risqué scenario hidden in the film: the toy characters reacting with wide-eyed shock to the off-camera sight of their now grown-up owner, Andy (who is about to leave home to begin college), engaging in a decidedly adult activity suggested to viewers by the shadow the participants cast on the floor of Andy's room. The years since then have seen the addition of a third class of risqué Disney film "Easter eggs": fakes created through the process of digital image manipulation. ![]() When we started this website way back in 1994, some of the very first articles we published were about various risqué images and messages supposedly slipped into Disney films - a few of them real, most of them products of viewers' imaginations.
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |